How many raw points a 65 costs on the Living Environment Regents

The movement

Living Environment has held its line

The Living Environment line is close to flat. The first three sittings on record charged 47.5% of the paper for a 65, the last three 47.8% — a gap of 0.3 points of the exam over 32 sittings. Peak: June 2014, 41/85 (48.2%). Trough: August 2014, 40/85 (47.1%) — 1.1 points apart. One of the steadier exams in the set. Both extremes are old; recent sittings cluster on the 48.2% median.

The paper has been worth 85 raw points at every sitting, 2014 through 2026, so the raw column below compares directly across the whole record.

Sat in January, June, August: 10 in January, 12 in June, 10 in August. In June 2026 the 65 line sat at 40 and the 85 line at 67: 27 marks apart, 31.8 points of the paper — the stretch an Advanced Regents average is won on. Sharpest single move: June 2014 to August 2014, 1.2 points in one step, in the student’s favour. 0 of the last 6 sat above the 48.2% median — every recent sitting came in under it.

A closed record, and a score that still sits on transcripts

June 2026 was the last Living Environment administration New York will give. The exam is being replaced by Life Science: Biology, written to different standards, and the two are not interchangeable: a raw score from one cannot be read against the other chart, and neither can a target. This series stays published for two reasons. A Living Environment grade earned before the changeover still sits on the transcript a college will read, and the successor exam has too few sittings of its own for a line to say anything yet. What this closed record shows is unusual stability — the paper stayed at 85 marks for its entire life, and the 65 line moved within a band narrow enough that a single raw target held for more than a decade.

The stability in this record is worth dwelling on, because it is the exception rather than the norm on this site. Most of the exams here have had their paper resized, their standards rewritten, or both, inside the same decade. Living Environment ran to the end on the same 85-mark paper it started with, which is why its line is the cleanest long series we hold and why it is the one worth reading if you want to know what a Regents curve does when nothing structural is changing underneath it.

For a family in the middle of the changeover, the practical question is what an old result is still worth. A Living Environment grade already earned does not expire and does not convert: it stays on the transcript as what it is, and no chart on this site turns it into a Life Science: Biology score. Where it matters is in planning what comes next — a student who cleared this exam comfortably is not starting the successor course from nothing, and one who scraped it is the student for whom the new standards are most likely to bite.

This record is closed. New York stopped administering Living Environment after June 2026, replacing it with Life Science: Biology, so June 2026 is the final point on this line and no later sitting will be added. The series stays published because the exam still sits on transcripts and because the successor exam has too few sittings to be read on its own yet.

Every sitting

The 32 Living Environment administrations on record

One row per published chart, newest first, with the NYSED file behind each one. Every published sitting carries a 65 line, so none has been dropped. June 2020, August 2020, January 2021, August 2021, January 2022 are absent because no exam was held.

Want the conversion table itself — every raw score against its scale score for Living Environment? That is a different question and it has its own page: the Living Environment score calculator converts a raw score you already have. This page answers the one you ask before the exam.

What to do with it

Setting a Living Environment target for the year ahead

Living Environment sits 4th of 9 by how much of the paper a 65 costs. The line barely moves, so one target holds year to year: about 41 of 85, the recent average of 47.8%. That is a diploma floor, not a goal: 67 marks bought an 85 in June 2026 (78.8%), and that is the line a transcript is read on.

It is a band, not a forecast: across 32 sittings the 65 line on Living Environment has never left 47.1–48.2% of the paper, and aiming at the top of that band survives a hard year instead of being surprised by one.

Living Environment against the other exams

47.1% places Living Environment 4 of 9. Its immediate neighbours on that scale:

All 9 exams, side by side →